Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Can You Spot the Math Error?

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Trawling around the interwebs, I encountered the following critique of vertical farm concepts at TreeHugger: This led us to wonder, "W...
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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

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In the post I wrote before I left for Ukraine, I wrote: Will it be an unparalleled ecological disaster zone? A latter-day Eden enabled by th...
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Sunday, June 13, 2010

I Can't Believe They Let Me Take This Picture

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Inside the Control Room of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1.
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Thursday, June 03, 2010

Off to Chernobyl

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I apologize for my utter lack of blog posts lately. I've been extremely busy with my dissertation research--I'm really starting to f...
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Sunday, March 28, 2010

SVBR in New York Times; Bellona Unimpressed

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The SVBR, which I first blogged about last year, is continuing to gain increasing attention in the American media. On March 18th the New Yor...
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Monday, February 15, 2010

How Many Bomb Shelters Were There in the USSR?

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I've been collecting data on the number of bomb shelters in various Russian cities. This was a topic of major debate decades ago, when s...
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Sunday, February 07, 2010

"Clean," "Safe" Natural Gas-Now With Deadly Explosions!

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Just a few days ago Joe Romm plugged natural gas as an alternative to new nuclear builds : "And the relatively low price of natural gas...
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Friday, January 22, 2010

How Gary Powers Could Have Started an Atomic War

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From the State Archive of the Russian Federation: Документальные кадры судебного заседания в Колонном зале Дома Союзов по уголовному делу ам...
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010

World Nuclear News on SVBR

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World Nuclear News has a new piece about the SVBR, which I blogged about awhile ago: " Initiative for Small Fast Reactors ." The ...
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ScienceBlogs Death Spiral Watch

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I've been growing increasingly dismayed in recent months by the decreasing quality of ScienceBlogs. More and more it seems that Sb is le...
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Monday, December 28, 2009

Carrots

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The disappointing end of the talks in Copenhagen has predictably resulted in a slew of finger-pointing. Although Bill McKibben and others l...
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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Books on VVER and RBMK

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Since I arrived in Russia three months ago I have been accumulating books not merely about civil defense, but also about the Soviet civilian...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

As Though the Future and the Climate Didn't Matter

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I've had some fun on this blog in the past critiquing Joe Romm's various " analyses " of nuclear power , but I basically...
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Friday, October 23, 2009

Atomic Technology in the Sixth Five-Year-Plan

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From Voennye znaniia , June 1956: "We Communists must place the greatest discovery of the 20th century--atomic energy--in full service ...
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Friday, October 16, 2009

Amory Lovins Admits He Doesn't Know the Carbon Intensity of "Micropower"

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From Amory Lovins' reply to Rod Adams' critique of this post on Grist: Mr. Adams’s claim about “an awful lot of diesel, coal, and n...
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Sunday, October 11, 2009

No, the Soviets Did NOT Build a "Doomsday Machine"

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From Wired : "The Perimeter system is very, very nice," he says. "We remove unique responsibility from high politicians and t...
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Thursday, October 01, 2009

The Energy Crisis in the Capitalist World, 1975

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I apologize for my recent lack of posts. I received a Fulbright-Hays grant and am currently in Moscow conducting dissertation research about...
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009

The RRW: Not So Dead After All

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From Newsweek : As a candidate, Barack Obama declared war on nukes, but now he's calling a tactical truce. To encourage tougher internat...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Scientists Release Radioactive Cockroaches Into Phoenix City Sewer

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From the "research committee wouldn't approve that nowadays" file: Approximately 6,500 American roaches, P. americana , were t...
Friday, August 21, 2009

That Doesn't Even Make Any Sense

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I've been eternally mystified by the insistence some arms control types have that restricting the domestic deployment of civilian nuclea...
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